Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Ysgafell
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 9 May 1988
- Community
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51009, -3.36153
- Cadw reference
- 8213
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In a farmyard at the side of the road near the community boundary. Sited upslope and behind the farmhouse.
Exterior
C16?, six-bay, cruck framed lofted cowhouse. Painted brick front and side end walls, rear elevation timber framed, much altered. Steeply pitched, hipped slate roof, oversailing eaves.
Modern agricultural windows, plank doors.
5 cruck trusses, blades cut below elbow to rest on wallhead to front. Through purlin collared full crucks, bow blades tennoned. Tie beams secondary. (C17?) and contemporary with insertion of loft. Original lower tie beams removed. C17 partitions and loft divisions, (now removed on ground floor).
Building may have been erected as a barn.
Nearby in the register
- Cogan CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Middle ScafellDomesticunder 1 mi
- Apple House at Glanhafren HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glanhafren HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.